NEW photographs show paedophile Jimmy Savile caught on camera in the act of grooming highly vulnerable girls at a school for society’s most fragile children.

In one frame he looks surprised to be snapped as he holds a private conversation with five girls he was setting out to impress.

In another shot the child molester adopts a cheesy pose surrounded by eight teenage girls, one of whom lifts her skirt to show a garter.

The full frames show his maroon Rolls-Royce in which he allegedly abused girls he had taken out for a drive. The photos were taken as he visited Duncroft School, an approved school for deeply troubled girls in Staines, west London.

One of his victims has bravely allowed her face to be shown in one of the pictures to bring home how shameless Savile used his BBC fame to sexually abuse her.

At the time of the photo, she was a pupil aged just 14 at Duncroft and desperately in need of protective care.

After his vile attack on her at the school in 1977, during a visit on which he was unchaperoned and apparently free to roam at will, she summoned up the courage to report him to her head teacher. Instead of the police being called she was sent to her room and deprived of food, she claims.

Looking back it was astonishing why people in authority at the school didn’t realise something was seriously wrong

Julie

Julie, not her real name, hopes that by telling her story those responsible for child care will improve procedures so that victims of abuse today will be listened to and not punished.

Now a mother aged 50, she said: “Looking back it was astonishing why people in authority at the school didn’t realise something was seriously wrong.

“He came to the school a couple of times a year, bringing presents of records and magazines and was far too tactile with the pupils, who saw him as a superstar. One day I was telling him that my older sister admired him and suggested he speak to her on the phone.

“I was just 14 at the time but he said we should go to an empty office.

“There was a swivel chair in the room. He wanted me to sit on his lap and then he put his arm around my waist. I sat on his lap as he chatted away to my sister.

“She was delighted to speak to a BBC superstar and it is true to say he was very nice to her on the phone but the minute he put the phone down his mood changed. Jekyll became Hyde.”

While she sat terrified on his lap he molested her for several minutes, ignoring her protests. Julie recalled: “I said to him ‘Get off, you can’t do that’, but he wouldn’t listen. In the end I had to push him off and then I ran into a nearby bathroom and locked myself in.

“I spent half an hour in there, terrified, not knowing what to do. When I came out I was so relieved he had driven off. I was scared and shaky but I went to the headmistress. I told her what had happened but she called me a liar, saying I had a dirty mouth. I got sent to my room with no dinner.

“I didn’t have a social worker or anyone else I could talk to. I felt so alone, friendless and abused. Not being believed was awful.

“I was 100 miles from my home and was being punished for telling the truth. The incident had a lasting effect on my life.

“I was really unsure about who to trust and ran away from the school several times.” In 2007 Savile was questioned under caution about sexual attacks on Duncroft schoolgirls but the case was dropped.

Now Julie has spoken to Scotland Yard officers investigating Savile.

“Even after all this time it is right that the truth finally comes out,” said Julie. “The police have been very nice to me. It is a great relief that finally people are starting to take what I said seriously.”

She has no idea what has happened to staff at the school but believes they should not have allowed Savile such easy access to girls and should have taken her complaint seriously.

In the ITV documentary Exposure: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile a former Duncroft pupil named as Charlotte told how Savile groped her when she sat on his lap in a caravan in the school grounds.

Another woman, Fiona, said she was abused in Savile’s Rolls-Royce when he took her out for a drive. Other girls at the school were also taken for trips.

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